ssociation cornices” (Andreasen et al., 1998). Schizophrenic patients with abnormalities in this area of the brain, suffer from verbal associative learning, and visual spatial skills, agrammatic speech, impaired memory, impaired procedural learning, decreased general intelligence as measured by IQ tests, abnormalities in representation of temporal information, impaired cognitive planning, and impaired nonmotor, learning and error detection. This neuroanatomical model helped to explain the multiple and diverse symptoms of schizophrenia. In addition it showed expressed the idea that these diverse symptoms of schizophrenia reflects different abnormalities in connectivity in the circuitry that links prefrontal and thalamic regions. It also showed where cerebro-cerebellar connectivity may be disrupted. The concept of “cognitive dysmetria” was intended to highlight the importance of explaining the multiple symptoms of schizophrenia by identifying basic cognitive mechanisms. In conclusion, schizophrenia is a very disturbing dysfunction in the brain. This disorder puts the patient and their family members in a different world. However, it is very important to understand the symptoms and causes of schizophrenia in order to understand the world of a person suffering from this disorder. I really enjoyed researching this disorder, because it enlightened me about the world of a schizophrenic person. ...
